Russia organized 2 sides of a Texas protest and encouraged 'both sides to battle in the streets'

News today from Business Insider about Russian
operatives pushing Americans to fight one another:

Russian actors organized both anti-Islam and pro-Islam protests in the same location at the same time on May 21, 2016, using separate Facebook
pages operated from a so-called troll farm in St. Petersburg, the Senate Intelligence Committee disclosed on Wednesday.

A Facebook page named Heart of Texas, whose link to Russia was first reported by Business Insider, organized a rally at noon on May 21 at the
Islamic Da'wah Center in Houston to "Stop Islamization of Texas." The account paid to promote the event, which was viewed by about 12,000 people, said
the committee's chairman, Sen. Richard Burr.

Another Russia-linked account, United Muslims of America, organized a counterprotest — a "Save Islamic Knowledge" rally.

The SAD part? It only cost Russia maybe $200:

Burr said that organizing and promoting these protests cost Russia "about $200."

Americans were totally unaware that they were being manipulated:

"What neither side could have known was that Russian trolls were encouraging both sides to battle in the streets and create division between real
Americans," Burr said on Wednesday during an open hearing with the general counsels of Facebook, Google, and Twitter.

AMERICA...we need to wake up and realize we are under a form of psychological ATTACK by Russia. After all ... the GOAL of the Russian
administration is:

Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism, for instance, provoke
"Afro-American racists". Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and
ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus
destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American
politics."

Deliberate Social Group Warfare (SGW) in all its sources (both foreign, and domestic) should be routed out, shamed, and charges filed where possible
and to maximum penalties as to make examples of to prevent future subversion.

originally posted by: DanteGaland
The SAD part? It only cost Russia maybe $200:

Aint that something.

Just imagine what BLM was able to buy with the one hundred million dollars ($100,000,000) Soros & the Ford Foundation handed them in lump sum
last year. www.washingtontimes.com...

But I mean the news media does this as well. CNN sides with one group and Fox News with the other. The politicians will call millions of people
deplorable and those deplorable will be attacked if they show up to vote. The US Government help one side of a war while providing aid to the other in
an attempt to appease whoever comes out the victor. It's part and parcel of a foreign manipulator. I mean if you're shocked in any way it says more
about your view of the world than the reality that we all live in.

Are Russians your enemy? I don't even know a Russian and I am not going to make them my enemies just because my Government says I should. Same with
any other country. I am not looking for friends, but I don't need enemies either.

This idea that Russia is pulling the strings in our politics is beyond laughable. I’m sorry, but not really. The other day Russia alleged that
Americans are taking DNA samples from Russians across the country, and our military wrote about doing this months ago. But none of you are worried
about that. You’re worried about Russian funded Facebook pages.

Everyone knows that Russia is not even in the top five countries that run our political affairs, a few Russian funded ads is meaningless. You want to
see how our politics are dominated by foreigners, look at Israel or Saudi Arabia.

There's a concerted effort by our enemies to destabilize and divide until we collapse under the weight of our own identity politics and our
willingness to be manipulated. To be lead. To be told what is right instead of figuring it out for ourselves.

This story illustrates one thing very clearly:

Our enemies are willing to help us destroy ourselves and we're willing to allow it to happen.

Typical, point the finger anywhere but at yourselves. If Russia can spend 200$ and cause this kind of chaos, that's a problem with your
infrastructure, not them. It's how the world works. It would be like asking people to just please not fire missiles at you, so that you don't need to
invest in missile interception tech.

Excuse is the wrong word. How long have those on the left whines about America's government holding foreign governments to a higher standard than our
own is held to? The US has been pulling this foreign cloak and dagger s@#^ for decades, including clandestinely encouraging populist movements. Look
at how this country destabilized the Middle East during the Arab spring events. Russia simply provided the platform here and everybody else picked
out their seats.

originally posted by: projectvxn
There's a concerted effort by our enemies to destabilize and divide until we collapse under the weight of our own identity politics and our
willingness to be manipulated. To be lead. To be told what is right instead of figuring it out for ourselves.

Enemies plural; and we have them both foreign & domestic.

This story illustrates one thing very clearly:

Our enemies are willing to help us destroy ourselves and we're willing to allow it to happen.

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